Example sentences of "been [verb] [art] [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In cases where the lis had not yet been joined the applicant was less successful . |
| 2 | For example , by the time the Mekong had been drained the excavations were comparable to the construction of the Panama canal and in the sixty years before the Second World War there were 4½ m. acres of new land brought into cultivation and correspondingly prodigious increases in the exports of rice . |
| 3 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that there was nothing in the policy of the Insolvency Act 1986 that indicated that Parliament intended to give the words ‘ carried on business ’ in section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) of that Act a meaning different from that which they had been held to bear in section 4(1) ( d ) of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 ; that a debtor did not cease to carry on business for the purposes of section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) until all the trading debts of the business had been paid ; and that , accordingly , the registrar had been right in holding that since the tax liability had not been discharged the debtor was still carrying on business and that he had jurisdiction to make the bankruptcy order ( post , pp. 122B–E , H — 123A ) . |
| 4 | Once all nine barrels have been discharged the weapon is of no further use , although hopefully it will have done its job by this time , and your enemies will be running for the hills . |
| 5 | Today it 's been revealed the board were warned in March last year about the state of their finances by officials from West Oxfordshire District council . |
| 6 | In reply , Greenidge and Richards hammered 88 in even time , but then only Murray made a substantial score , his 64 being joint top with Richards and 41 more than it should have been had a catch been accepted ; 308 all out . |
| 7 | Well , it was n't as gruesome as it might have been had the bodies been five weeks rather than five years old , but it had n't been a pretty sight by any means . |
| 8 | His mistake may have been to assume the election was won before it was fought . |
| 9 | It has been suggested that in some countries where capital punishment has been abolished the alternative is the imprisonment of murderers under more rigorous conditions than are applicable to other prisoners , but from the information collected by the Select Committee it appears that this suggestion is unfounded . |
| 10 | ‘ I have been told the forms are private and confidential , but by the time you finish filling them in , your whole life is there for someone to see . ’ |
| 11 | For years we 've been told the Government is pledged to reach the UN aid target of 0.7 per cent . |
| 12 | er sent us a photograph after the war was over , but since then , since we 've tried to find him , we 've been told the man 's never existed at all . |
| 13 | Now Philip McKenna has been told the council is pulling the block from under him . |
| 14 | Mr MacArthur said : ‘ The pilot said he had been told the weather was bad on Mull and that he might fly on to Tiree . |
| 15 | Mackie denied he had been told that and said that if he had been told the meeting was confidential from the start there would have been little point in him , as an analyst , being there . |
| 16 | I 'd been told the baby was semi-posterior so I knew I had to turn her into a more comfortable position for birth . |
| 17 | He says he would n't have liked to have been told an incinerator was being built at the bottom of his garden , but having seen this one , he 'd be reassured . |
| 18 | She heard a noise , but , before she could take any evasive action , a cycle came spinning round the corner and the sharp eyes of the girl who had been cleaning the farm were on her intently . |
| 19 | Applied to the artists showing at Brussels , the term could have no very definite meaning , and Apollinaire found it hard to identify many specific characteristics shared by the painters , or even to distinguish Cubism from Fauvism : ‘ One feature unites them , for if the principal merit of the painters who have been called the Fauves was the return to fundamental principles as far as colour and composition are concerned , the Cubists , in order to extend yet further the province of an art thus renewed , have sought to return to basic principles of drawing and inspiration . |
| 20 | Once the special character combinations had been replaced the file was iteratively refined . |
| 21 | Firstly , if the decree absolute of divorce has not been pronounced the parties are still husband and wife ( Fender v St John-Mildmay [ 1938 ] AC 1 ) ; and we have seen that transfers between them ( provided they are both domiciled in the UK ) are exempt from a charge to inheritance tax ( see Chapter 2 , p20 ) even if they are living apart . |
| 22 | If the correct position for changing the phase excitation pattern has been reached the phase is allowed to remain on , otherwise the phase is turned off in preparation for a subsequent trial . |
| 23 | Once enough money had been raised the bells were taken to the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in London — where one of them was originally cast . |
| 24 | ( Station Lane where the water authority has been installing a pipe is especially in need of repair . ) |
| 25 | Up by where we had been tipping the spoil was an area of hard-standing for a car , and some benevolent genius ( probably our builder friend ) had laid down sheets of open-weave chipboard over the soil , so the wheels would n't sink in . |
| 26 | Even they know that the way they 've been running the club is hardly likely to gain them a good press . |
| 27 | After some initial problems had been overcome the Garratts were outstandingly successful , running on all gauges from 2 feet to 5 feet 6 inches on gradients up to 1 in 20 or more , usually at modest speeds on heavily curved and graded routes , but capable of 75–80 m.p.h. on the Algerian expresses which were headed by probably the fastest articulated locomotives ( 4–6–2+2–6–4 ) ever built . |
| 28 | It was a shame that there was nothing from the boy 's mother , but then it was only Thursday and perhaps since war had been declared the post was being delayed . |
| 29 | Once an appropriate file name has been defined the file is automatically structured . |
| 30 | Using Circle K as an example he complained that since the lighting had been removed the corner was dull , dark and dangerous and not a place to walk late at night . |